The Osceola times., 1887-05-07

On the 9Th Henry Msckey, . Brush
electric light lineman at Detroit Mich,
touched live wire while working on
pole. He was fatally injured by falling
to the street He was married; aged
thirty.
OK the 27th the Tunnel colliery. owned
by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron Company, on the outskirts OF Ash
land, Pa, was the scene Of disastrous
cave-iu, resulting In the death OF i've per-
sons.
In the valley Of St. Maurice, Quebec,
black fever, accompanied with diphtheria,
is making terrible ravages among the peo-
pie. AtMt. Caribou eight deaths have oc-
CURED in one family. There is no pros
pect Of an early abatement OF the disease.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
thrown under an ore train on the Hecla &
Torch Lake (Mich.) railroad on the even
ing OF the Goth, o coupling link breaking.
Miss Hoar had her head cut from her
body, and Miss McDonald's legs were
crushed so badly that amputation was
necessary. Both victims lived at Lake
Linden.
Ok the evening Of the eth fre de-
ed in the southwestern part Of Des
Moines, Ia, containing thirteen locomo-
tives. II was a wooden building, and
when the fire was discovered II was un-
der such headway that nothing could
stay the progress OF the flames. The loss
will scarcely fall below 00,e00, and may
exceed that sum.
TuE steamer Benton is reported sunk
- - I.l 80 .al
lost.
A RECENT hurricane in Australia is said
to have wrecked forty fishing boats and
drowned $50 people.
OK the evening Of the 2sth fire destroy
ed the buildings Nos. 2ai, 2,3, 2,5 and 227
Canal street, New York. The losses ag-
gregate ta40, 900, well insured.
HENRY ANDERSON, who was TO have
been hung at Socorro, N. NJ, on the Goth,
for the murder Of Alfonso Williams, and
Theodore Baker, TO have been executed at
Springer for the killing Of Frank Unruh,
were granted respite BY Governor Ross
until Maya
GKoRuB NJ HAcoIrRis died at the Al
legheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 2sth, adding fourth victim to
the Willis Are horror. The day was the
one set for the dead mans marriage. His
afiianced was by his side to the last, when
she gave way TO paroxysms Of grief and is
incon solable.
FIRE at Georgetown, Col, on the morn
ing Of the 2ath, destroyed the Fish and
Hamil blocks, including the Bank Of Clear
Creek County, the Eagle clearinghouse,
Wrights confectionery, Wallings' grocery
and bakery, together with several small
buildings. Loss, $4,000; insurance light
FIRB In Fosters Opera House at Des
Moines, Ia, on the 29th, did $4,000 dam.
age.
Mr.. AND MRs. SYLVESTER BowsHER, Of
Kingman, Ind, have identified the two
boys who were recently killed by the car s
at Hagerstown, ILL.,, one being their son
and the other cousin.
CAPTAIN PATRICK DOYLE and eighteen
men, part Of the crew Of the British
steamer Bon Hope, were picked up on the
Goth in Tybee roads by pilot.boat and
landed at Savannah, Ga. Their vessel,
bound from New York to Vera Cruz. was
burned and the crew had TO take to their
boats.
THREE negroes were lynched near Proc
ter, w. Va, on the D,h.
JoHN GINS and Abe McCrea got into a
fight at Rosebury station, Pa, on the 30th,
and both were fatally injured.
Miss ALICE Conn. daughter Of Alvin
Cobb, twenty-four years Of age, COM
mitted suicide at Portland Me-, on thu
morning OF the 30th, shooting herself
through the heart
The Swiss village OF Sils was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 3oth.
AN accident occurred on tho North ern
Pacific railway on the 3)th by which W.
U. Breed, Of Faribault, Mimi, was crushed
to death and seven others were seriously
injured.
SAMUEL F. PERRY, believed TO be one of
the Ravenna (O) train murderers, who
killed Captain Hohen while aiding In the
rescue of Eddy Guerin, the Cleveland fur
robbcr, Is under arrest in New York.
1T is feared that the schooner Louie
O'Neill has gone TO the bottom OF Lake
Erie and that her crew of eight persons
are lost
JAY AND LEE MooaE, aged fourteen and
twelve years, and Ira and BERTHE Hotch.
kiss, aged eleven and eight sons OF we'll
to-do farmers Of South Valley, Catta-
raugus County, n. Y, went fishing on the
ist along the Allegheny river When
about rod from the shore the current
capsized the boat and all four were
drowned.